There certainly is an enthusiasm gap right now between the Republicans and democrats, and that is huge in an election where turnout is key. Hillary is a terrible candidate, doesn't inspire, is unlikable and turns people off with her rhetorical screeching. Democrats are going to have to have something more to offer than "oh meh gerhd, they's gunna take away abertion!!".
well, I can tell you that women aren't going to vote for an anti-choice extremist who doesn't believe in equal pay for equal work. and that also means we can't vote for someone who will appoint judges who won't enforce our rights.
if you have a problem with that, i'd suggest you get over it.
as for Hillary... the rightwingnuts have done nothing but make up insane things for years about her. luckily, most people don't care what rightwingnuts say about our candidates.
truth is you all suddenly love Bernie because you know 70% of the people in this country won't vote for a socialist.
which makes you think it doesn't matter what type of idiot you put up as your candidate.
it doesn't work that way.
You are not pro-choice, you are pro-abortion. Stop with the bullshit.
Lonestar "logic"...oxymoron.
Being pro choice means a woman has the right to reproductive choice. I know that is threatening to the GOP...letting the women folk do what they want to.
Tough.
That's the liberal spin on the term, but not the reality.
How about letting people choose their own health insurance and health plan.....?
Lmao. That's the theocrat spin on it. *shrug*
People can choose their own health plan. But actually have to choose a plan. There are lots of things we pay for that I'm not interested in carrying like farm subsidies to Michele bachmann's families and others like them and her closeted husband's pray away the gay program.
Then there was always the cost of baby bush's wars and corporate welfare.
You need to stop stalling your feet and whining. Especially when you like putting your nose in people's private lives.
No people can't choose their own healthcare plan. Your plan MUST meet the ACA requirements. The lie of the year was "If you like your healthcare plan you can keep it"
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White House Web page: "Linda Douglass of the White House Office of Health Reform debunks the myth that reform will force you out of your current insurance plan or force you to change doctors. To the contrary, reform will expand your choices, not eliminate them. "
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White House Web page: "If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan."
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President’s weekly address, June 6, 2009: "If you like the plan you have, you can keep it. If you like the doctor you have, you can keep your doctor, too. The only change you’ll see are falling costs as our reforms take hold."
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Town hall in Green Bay, Wis., June 11, 2009: "No matter how we reform health care, I intend to keep this promise: If you like your doctor, you'll be able to keep your doctor; if you like your health care plan, you'll be able to keep your health care plan."
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Remarks at the American Medical Association, June 15, 2009: "I know that there are millions of Americans who are content with their health care coverage — they like their plan and, most importantly, they value their relationship with their doctor. They trust you. And that means that no matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. If you like your health care plan, you'll be able to keep your health care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what."
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Presidential press conference, June 23, 2009. "If you like your plan and you like your doctor, you won't have to do a thing. You keep your plan. You keep your doctor."
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Rose Garden remarks, July 15, 2009. "If you like your doctor or health care provider, you can keep them. If you like your health care plan, you can keep that too."
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Remarks at a rally for New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine, July 16, 2009: "if you've got health insurance, you like your doctor, you like your plan — you can keep your doctor, you can keep your plan. Nobody is talking about taking that away from you."
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Presidential weekly address, July 18, 2009: "Michelle and I don’t want anyone telling us who our family’s doctor should be – and no one should decide that for you either. Under our proposals, if you like your doctor, you keep your doctor. If you like your current insurance, you keep that insurance. Period, end of story."
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Rose Garden remarks, July 21, 2009: "If you like your current plan, you will be able to keep it. Let me repeat that: If you like your plan, you'll be able to keep it."
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Remarks in Shaker Heights, Ohio, July 23, 2009: "Reform will keep the government out of your health care decisions, giving you the option to keep your coverage if you're happy with it."
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Town hall in Raleigh, N.C.,July 29, 2009: "I have been as clear as I can be. Under the reform I've proposed, if you like your doctor, you keep your doctor. If you like your health care plan, you keep your health care plan. These folks need to stop scaring everybody. Nobody is talking about you forcing … to change your plans."
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Presidential weekly address, Aug. 8, 2009: "Under the reforms we seek, if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan."
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Town hall in Portsmouth, N.H., Aug. 11, 2009: "Under the reform we're proposing, if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan."
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Town hall in Belgrade, Mont., Aug. 14, 2009: "If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan. This is not some government takeover. If you like your doctor, you can keep seeing your doctor. This is important."
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Presidential weekly address, Aug. 15, 2009: "No matter what you’ve heard, if you like your doctor or health care plan, you can keep it."
White House web page: "For those Americans who already have health insurance, the only changes you will see under the law are new benefits, better protections from insurance company abuses, and more value for every dollar you spend on health care. If you like your plan you can keep it and you don’t have to change a thing due to the health care law."
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Remarks in Iowa City, Iowa, March 25, 2010: "You like your plan? You’ll be keeping your plan. No one is taking that away from you."
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Remarks in Portland, Maine, April 1, 2010: The critics will "see that if Americans like their doctor, they will keep their doctor. And if you like your insurance plan, you will keep it. No one will be able to take that away from you. It hasn’t happened yet. It won’t happen in the future."
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White House blog post by Stephanie Cutter, May 18, 2010: "A key point to remember is that while the Act makes many changes to the individual market, it specifically allows those who want to keep their current insurance to do so. Most of the Act’s protections apply only to new policies, allowing people to stick with their current plan if they prefer."
Going into ObamaCare’s first enrollment period in 2013 4.7 million of the 270 million Americans with health coverage lost plans. This group who lost their plans include about 1.4 million who qualified for free coverage from Medicaid and about 2.35 million who qualified for subsidies on the
Marketplace. All Americans who had canceled plans qualified for a
hardship exemption, meaning if they chose not to sign up they wouldn’t pay the fee for not having insurance in 2014. Others were able to keep their plan to additional years up to 2017.